Top 10 Cars for 2008

Oh - top one of each of the various categories. Well, still... Toyota made out well.

My dream of a brand-new Prius being mysteriously left for me in the driveway has yet to materialize. Sigh...

Cathy

"Cathy F."

The next time I step on a cockroach, I'll send it to you. Should be a worthy substitute.

Natalie, running like hell

Smart woman (the running like hell bit!).

Cathy

Sort of related (since a Lexus made the top luxury sedan)... someone at school drives a Lexus SUV. Don't know who; it's always parked in the other parking lot from the one I use. Every time I see that thing, I think: how the hell much did that thing *cost*?! And kinda wonder how a teacher can afford one - unless they have a spouse who makes oodles of $, or else live way beyond their means, maybe...

Cathy

Same here. (Sees your sigh and raises you a half hour long daydream about the 6 kilowatt sound system that would be possible thanks to the traction battery)

I know a person that works for the AEA here and currently drives an Acura sedan and trades vehicles every time one needs new tires. Doesn't make sense to me either.

The teacher's lot at the local high school is filled with some pretty pricey rides - Lexus, BMW's, Acuras, and even a Jaguar XJ sedan, which is probably why so many students at the high school become education majors when the move on to college (including one of my sons).

Ooooh... :)

Not that I'd try to crank it all that loud all the time, but I can hear really low levels of clipping and distortion, and listening to an under-powered system can be torture. Headroom is your friend.

And I like "difficult material" for a car stereo, like Don Dorsey with the "256-foot ranks" (~4 Hz) in the digital pipe organ, Tower of Power, large chunks of the Telarc and Sheffield Labs catalogs where they milk the dynamic range for all it's worth...

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looks like Toyota done it again.

There was a website a few days ago that encouraged people to teach instead of retiring. Maybe a former CEO wanted to teach =3D)

looks like Toyota done it again.

Ed V

Ya.

Natalie

well, my wife and her sister both had honda's (i love Japanese model=20 names- my wife's was a Honda "that's"); they both had issues with their=20 power windows. Their brother works for a Toyota subsidiary in Nagoya. Toyota's have the best reputation within Japan (honda's not so much,=20 because of minor issues such as windows). So, better buy a Toyota! (keep my brotherinlaw working).

well, my wife and her sister both had honda's (i love Japanese model names- my wife's was a Honda "that's"); they both had issues with their power windows. Their brother works for a Toyota subsidiary in Nagoya. Toyota's have the best reputation within Japan (honda's not so much, because of minor issues such as windows). So, better buy a Toyota! (keep my brotherinlaw working).

Catch Me

Well, of course that's my ultimate goal. :-P

:-)

Natalie

But... how are they *affording* them?? Or are they older models, maybe? This Lexus SUV I'm seeing looks brand-new.

Cathy

There was a website a few days ago that encouraged people to teach instead of retiring. Maybe a former CEO wanted to teach =) ``````````````````` Okay, now that makes sense. ;-)

Cathy

I recall reading a while back that the local high school district pays the third highest teacher salaries in the state, and coincidentally, the students in the local high school district consistently are at or near the top of the state in various measurements of education quality, like ACT's, SAT,s and percentage of students getting post-secondary education. IMO, the quality of the education that my children received seems to be as good as the one I received at a private prep school, and I don't begrudge paying teachers what they are worth.

I suspect that a LOT of them are heavily financed. Also, there could be a wealthy spouse.

Geez - it is a Consumer Reports list........almost the kiss of death as far as I am concerned. Virtually nothing CR has recommended has ever worked out for my family. In his later years my Father kept buying CD best picks and they almost universally sucked. I sure hope it is not the kiss of death for the RAV4 my sister just picked up.....

Ed

"C. E. White" ...

"Wickeddoll®" wrote:

We've had just the opposite experience.

Apples and oranges, I guess.

Natalie